Andscape at the Olympics is an ongoing series exploring the Black athletes and culture around the 2024 Paris Games. PARIS – Welcome to Andscape at the Olympics, a video series in which Andscape columnist William C. Rhoden, senior NBA writer Marc J. Spears and Andscape/ESPN commentator Ari Chambers will discuss the key topics about Black...
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Fruit Pizza Recipe
This Fruit Pizza Recipe is a fun dessert that’s as pretty as it is delicious! A sugar cookie crust and fluffy cream cheese frosting are topped with a rainbow of fresh fruit. I’m always down for a pizza dinner, whether it’s vegan naan pizza or quinoa pizza bites. And when it comes time for dessert,...
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Art. Bold Works by Deborah Segun.
Deborah Segun is a 30-year-old Nigerian artist who lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. Segun studied at Italy’s prestigious Polimoda school in Florence — one of the top art schools in the world. Segun is known for her use of complimenting color schemes to create bright, bold, abstracted depictions of the black female form. She...
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How Victor Wembanyama’s unearthly size and still-growing feet made him Nike’s ‘Alien’
As soon as “Wemby” landed in conversation, Nike CEO and president John Donahoe beamed in fascination of basketball’s French-born, 7-foot-4 anomaly, Victor Wembanyama. The moment occurred in early April at Palais Brongniart, the former home of the Paris Stock Exchange. Donahoe reaffirmed Nike’s early investment in Wembanyama, who signed with the Swoosh years before his...
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X Uses Community Notes on Election Posts, but Misinformation Spreads
The social media company will use its Community Notes program to moderate lies about the election, but cracks are already appearing.
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How US Chips Continue to End Up in Russian Missiles
Defying sanctions, Russia has obtained nearly $4 billion in restricted chips since the war began in Ukraine. Many were shipped through a cluster of shell companies in Hong Kong.
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Google claims math breakthrough with proof-solving AI models
Enlarge / An illustration provided by Google. (credit: Google) On Thursday, Google DeepMind announced that AI systems called AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reportedly solved four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), achieving a score equivalent to a silver medal. The tech giant claims this marks the first time an AI...
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OpenAI hits Google where it hurts with new SearchGPT prototype
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards / OpenAI) Arguably, few companies have unintentionally contributed more to the increase of AI-generated noise online than OpenAI. Despite its best intentions—and against its terms of service—its AI language models are often used to compose spam, and its pioneering research has inspired others to build AI models that can potentially do...
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Chrome will now prompt some users to send passwords for suspicious files
(credit: Chrome) Google is redesigning Chrome malware detections to include password-protected executable files that users can upload for deep scanning, a change the browser maker says will allow it to detect more malicious threats. Google has long allowed users to switch on the Enhanced Mode of its Safe Browsing, a Chrome feature that warns users...